Mother Stories


Gelesen von Greg Giordano

(4.6 stars; 13 reviews)

"I have endeavored to write, for mothers and dear little children, a few simple stories, embodying some of the truths of Froebel's Mother Play...Most of these stories have been told and retold to little children, and are surrounded, in my eyes, by a halo of listening faces" from the Preface to Mother Stories by Maud Lindsay (Summary by Greg Giordano) (2 hr 21 min)

Kapitel

Preface 2:09 Gelesen von Greg Giordano
The Wind's Work 6:13 Gelesen von Greg Giordano
Mrs. Tabby Gray 4:48 Gelesen von Greg Giordano
Fleet Wind and Sweet Voice 7:45 Gelesen von Greg Giordano
The Little Girl with the Light 7:35 Gelesen von Greg Giordano
The Little Gray Pony 6:26 Gelesen von Greg Giordano
How the Home was Built 7:24 Gelesen von Greg Giordano
The Little Traveler 7:29 Gelesen von Greg Giordano
The Open Gate 7:18 Gelesen von Greg Giordano
Inside the Garden Gate 20:40 Gelesen von Greg Giordano
The Journey 7:25 Gelesen von Greg Giordano
The Giant Energy & The Fairy Skill 8:47 Gelesen von Greg Giordano
The Search for a Good Child 12:13 Gelesen von Greg Giordano
The Closing Door 6:16 Gelesen von Greg Giordano
The Minstrel's Song 6:50 Gelesen von Greg Giordano
Dust Under the Rug 8:23 Gelesen von Greg Giordano
The Story of Gretchen 7:47 Gelesen von Greg Giordano
The King's Birthday 6:02 Gelesen von Greg Giordano

Bewertungen

Good stories for young children


(3 stars)

There was a great variety of stories in this little book for young children. I enjoyed them, although admittedly I listened to most of them at 3am, so the details are foggy. Many thanks to the narrator for his smooth reading, and contribution to my sleep. As is common in the book's era of writing, most of the stories involved good children and a moral. However, I thought the author was very clever in her presentation. Rather than pushing the moral onto the young reader, she began each story with a motto for the mother. This enabled her to demonstrate the moral of the story, without spoiling the story itself. I would give most of the stories three stars, but I would give one, The Closed Door, five stars. Mind you, I doubt a young reader would rate it so highly, but as a parent it really made me think.